Improved wringing-machine



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

G. R. HUNTLEY, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

INIPROlVED WRINGING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 [,998, dated March 22, 1864.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE R. HUNTLEY, of Taunton, in the county ot' Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Glothes-Wringing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use my saidirnprovement.

The same letters refer to like parts in each of the gures of the drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of one-half of the wringing-machine with my improvements. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one end.

1n the accompanying drawings, N is astand with two legs, L and M. The legM is putinside the wash-tub and the leg L outside, which leg L has the lever E hinged to it, which lever is provided with a thumb-screw, F, which is screwed against the tub and forces the opposite end ofthe lever against the tub also, and the leg M on the opposite side of the tub, so as to hold the stand lirinl y. The upper end of the stand N is madein thei'orm shown in the drawings, and has a slot, J, in it for the journals of the rollers R R. The journal of the lower roller turns on the friction-wheel G on the stand N, and a sliding box, B, is placed on the journal of the upper roller R and pressed down by the hook A, which extends down through a flange, K, on the stand N, asshown in the drawings, and is provided with an india-rubber spring, G, and a thumb-nut, D, ou the lower end of the rod A, which nut ,may be screwed to adjust the pressure on the rollers to the kind ot' clothes to be squeezed.

The rollers R R may be made of india-rub ber, gutta-percha, or some elastic subst-ance that will squeeze the water ont ofthe clothes passed through between the rollers,and a crank may be applied to the journal of one of the rollers to turn them. There are some anges on the stands N, to which iianges the bar l:l is fastened in an inclined position, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to make the water from the rollers run into the tub. At the sanne time it c0nnects the stands and holds them in a proper relative position to each other.

Having described my improvements in wringing-machines, I claim- The stands N with legs L and M, lever E, rollers R R, friction-wheel G, box B, rod A, liange K, and spring C, arranged in the manner described, for the purposes set forth.

GEORGE R. HUNTLEY.

Vitnesses:

ELIAS E. FULLER, L LEML. T. TALBOT. 

